#on

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#attention #bubbling #close #close attention #facts

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#another #around #china #chinese #country

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#human mind #idleness #iron #like #mind

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#always #choice #choosing #companion #considered

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#between #cousins #deterioration #determination #detest

Progress is hardly ever dramatic; in fact, it is usually very slow. As every parent and teacher knows, education is never a matter of ten-step plans or quick formulas, but of faithful commitment to the mundane challenges of daily life: getting up from the sofa to spend time with our children, loving them and disciplining them, becoming involved in their lives at school and, most important, making sure they have a wholesome family life to return to at home. Maybe that is why Jesus teaches us to ask for strength little by little, on a daily basis - "Give us this day our daily bread" - and why he stresses the significance of even the smallest, humblest beginnings: "Wherever two of you agree about anything you ask for, it shall be done for you... For where two or three come together in my name, I shall be with them" (Mt. 18:19-20). ↗

— Johann Christoph Arnold

#education

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#children #dear #devolved #duty #expanding

Death is the tyrant of the imagination. ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#imagination #tyrant

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#better #course #day #days #easier

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both. ↗

— John Cornyn

#both #distinguish #distorts #does #draw